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101. Historiography of South India has been vitiated by Aryan or Dravidian bias, Brahmin or anti-Brfl/iwm biasr and^anskrit or Tamil bias in addition to regional pride. This has confused foreign students and researchers also. It is only recently that materialistic interpretations based chiefly on economic factors and class ~ analysis has been slowly clearing the debris to reconstruct history as objectively as possible. This new trend is fostered by writers like Venamalalai, Kailasapathy, Champakalakshmi, Karashima, Sivathamby, D.N. ]ha, Y. Subbarayalu, Shanmugham Kesavan Veluthat, Rajan Gurukkal et al. in the field of Tamil history in ancient and medieval times. See R. Champakalakshmi, Historiography of South India: New Directions, Presidential Address, South Indian History Congress, Madras, 1986, Historiography Section.